Masters of the Weird Tale: Ambrose Bierce

  • Written by Ambrose Bierce
  • ISBN: 9781613470152
  • Format: Hardcover, 600pp
  • Publish Date: September 1, 2013
  • Dimensions: 7.5" x 11"
  • Original Price: US$125
  • Genre: Horror Weird Fiction
  • Publication Type: Collection
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About
Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce (1842-1913?) was an American editorialist, journalist, short story writer, fabulist, and satirist. He wrote the short story "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" and compiled a satirical lexicon, The Devil's Dictionary. Is style often embraces an abrupt beginning, dark imagery, vague references to time, limited descriptions, impossible events and the theme of war. In 1913, Bierce traveled to Mexico to gain first-hand experience of the Mexican Revolution. Hile traveling with rebel troops, he disappeared without a trace.

Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce (1842-1913?) was an American editorialist, journalist, short story writer, fabulist, and satirist. In 1913, Bierce traveled to Mexico to gain first-hand experience of the Mexican Revolution. He wrote the short story "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" and compiled a satirical lexicon, The Devil's Dictionary. His style often embraces an abrupt beginning, dark imagery, vague references to time, limited descriptions, impossible events and the theme of war.

In 1913, Bierce traveled to Mexico to gain first-hand experience of the Mexican Revolution hile traveling with rebel troops, he disappeared without a trace This 560-page collection includes all of the best horror stories and Civil War stories, plus some other tales and sketches that are only rarely collected in book format.

Ason Eckhardt has contributed twenty-four black and white drawings, and a stunning color frontispiece portrait of Bierce The book also has a woodcut-style illustration of a raven sitting on top of a tattered Union flag stamped into the front cover This is all the Bierce you need in one single, easy-to-read, gorgeously typeset volume that fits nicely with the other authors in the Masters of the Weird Tale series.

The edition is limited t0 200 signed and numbered copies, and the book is signed by S. T oshi and Jason C f you would like to see a table of contents, send us an email!

Edition Details
  • Limited to 200 copies, each signed by S.T. Joshi and artist Jason C. Eckhardt.
  • Introduction by S.T. Joshi.
  • Slipcase, ribbon marker, head and tail bands, three-piece cloth construction.
Contents:
  • Introduction (Ambrose Bierce: Masters of the Weird Tale) by S. T. Joshi (Essay)
  • Killed at Resaca
  • George Thurston
  • One of the Missing
  • Jupiter Doke, Brigadier-General
  • Chickamauga
  • A Son of the Gods
  • A Tough Tussle
  • A Horseman in the Sky
  • One Officer, One Man
  • An Affair of Outposts
  • The Affair at Coulter's Notch
  • The Coup de Grâce
  • An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
  • One Kind of Officer
  • A Baffled Ambuscade
  • The Major's Tale
  • The Story of a Conscience
  • Parker Adderson, Philosopher
  • The Mocking-Bird
  • A Man with Two Lives
  • Two Military Executions
  • A Resumed Identity
  • Three and One Are One
  • The Haunted Valley
  • The Night-Doings at "Deadman's"
  • The Famous Gilson Bequest
  • An Inhabitant of Carcosa
  • Bodies of the Dead
  • Present at a Hanging
  • A Psychological Shipwreck
  • A Holy Terror
  • Charles Ashmore's Trail
  • The Difficulty of Crossing a Field
  • The Isle of Pines
  • A Cold Greeting
  • One of Twins
  • The Spook House
  • The Suitable Surroundings
  • The Man and the Snake
  • The Man Out of the Nose
  • The Death of Halpin Frayser
  • An Adventure at Brownville
  • The Damned Thing
  • An Unfinished Race
  • A Watcher by the Dead
  • The Realm of the Unreal
  • The Middle Toe of the Right Foot
  • Haïta the Shepherd
  • The Boarded Window
  • The Secret of Macarger's Gulch
  • The Thing at Nolan
  • A Baby Tramp
  • The Applicant
  • Moxon's Master
  • John Bartine's Watch
  • A Jug of Sirup
  • A Diagnosis of Death
  • A Wireless Message
  • The Moonlit Road
  • Perry Chumley's Eclipse
  • An Imperfect Conflagration
  • At Old Man Eckert's
  • A Vine on a House
  • The Eyes of the Panther
  • An Arrest
  • Staley Fleming's Hallucination
  • Beyond the Wall
  • The Other Lodgers
  • The Stranger
  • The Hypnotist
  • A Bottomless Grave
  • My Favorite Murder
  • Oil of Dog
  • The Widower Turmore
  • One Summer Night
  • John Mortonson's Funeral
  • For the Ahkoond
  • Ashes of the Beacon
  • John Smith Liberator: (From a Newspaper of the Far Future)
  • Authenticating a Ghost
  • A Story at the Club
  • A Scientific Dream
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